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Asylum: Housing

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many asylum seekers were housed in dispersed accommodation in Northern Ireland on 31 December (a) 2022 and (b) 2024.

answeredHome Office

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Answering body
Home Office
Tabled
28 Mar 2025
Target answer date
2 Apr 2025
Answer
2 Apr 2025 · 5 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 28 Mar 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many asylum seekers were housed in dispersed accommodation in Northern Ireland on 31 December (a) 2022 and (b) 2024.

  2. 2 Apr 2025

    Target answer date

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  3. 2 Apr 2025

    Answer published

    Only those individuals claiming asylum in Northern Ireland are accommodated there.Northern Ireland’s asylum population is proportionate to its population when compared to the UK. There were 1,853 asylum seekers in dispersal accommodation in Northern Irela...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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